After reading Pronet Advertising’s post today about making your content delicious I was inspired to add Digg and Del.icio.us buttons to this blog. It took me a while to find all the information I needed to create both buttons so I thought I’d write about the process here.

I found that most recommended methods of adding a Digg button doesn’t actually work which I found surprising as it’s used by blogs such as SEOmoz. This is by using http://www.digg.com/submit?url=INSERT_URL which sends you to the submit page but doesn’t include the appended url of the story your submitting. As a workaround I inserted the same URL used by FeedBurner which skips to the second phase of submitting a Digg story and inserts the URL and title. Below is the code used for Blogger, if you use different blog software you would obviously need to change the way the URL and title is written.

<a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.seoptimise.com/images/delicious.png” alt=”Add to Del.icio.us” target=”_blank”>Add to Del.icio.us</a> | <a href=”http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>”><img src=”http://www.seoptimise.com/images/digg.gif” alt=”Digg This”>Digg This</a>

I also added these links to the RSS feed which was made very easy by FeedBurner, all I needed to do was activate the FeedFlare service and select the links I’d like to publish such as Digg, Del.icio.us and Email This.

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Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch. Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.

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